Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:02:03 -0500
From: "ktm@rice.edu" <ktm@rice.edu>
To: lxnf98mm@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: Upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2 in place, same machine
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On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 03:46:28PM -0500, lxnf98mm@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2013, Vincent Lau wrote:
> 
> how would pg_upgrade be used to upgrade to a new machine
> use nfs?
> would i run pg_upgrade on the new server?
> 
> 

I would replicate to the new server from the old using WAL to get
an up to date copy of the DB. Shutdown the new copy and run pg_upgrade.
Then you can fallback to the old system if there is a problem.

Regards,
Ken


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